Mary Boleyn Timeline & Summary
MoreMary Boleyn Timeline & Summary
- Mary watches her uncle being executed; it's the Tudors call Tuesday.
- Due to her meddling family, Mary is pressured to seduce the king, Henry VIII.
- Mary soon gets pregnant with the king's child, a girl she names Catherine.
- Fertile Mary is soon with another child, the king's bastard son, Henry.
- While Mary's pregnant, King Henry gets bored, so the family places Anne in Henry's path.
- Henry's affections soon shift toward Anne, which prompts Mary's husband, William, to return to her. He dies, though, and Mary is relieved.
- Mary entertains the idea of living in the family home and raising her kids. All she really wants is to be a mom.
- Fate has other plans. And by fate, we mean Mary's controlling sister, Anne.
- Anne demands that Mary stay at the castle, and she adopts Mary's son, Henry, as a pawn to control her and the king.
- Mary meets another William—William Stafford—and marries him, against the wishes of her family.
- Now all Mary wants is to be a wife and mother, but that's hard when you're the sister of the queen.
- Henry has married Anne, who is desperately trying to produce a male heir.
- Whenever Anne has a miscarriage, Mary helps Anne hide the evidence.
- But when Anne is arrested, and soon to be executed, Mary plans to flee the court.
- After Anne is beheaded, Mary takes her kids and her husband and moves to the country. There are fewer beheadings out there.